[General] Fwd: DARPA wants to fund hackerspaces and biosphere work

[Bahiy Watson]

This is right up my alley. I work on planes now for Boeing. But not too
long ago I worked on an Apollo style crew capsule. I had ideas on how to
make it lighter but the ideas were shot down. They were considered too
risky for space flight, but in the airplane business they do what I was
suggesting all the time.
On May 16, 2012 3:57 PM, "Ethan Chew" <spacefelix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yo,
>
>       Some more ears to the ground info on the DARPA grant of HackerSpaces
> in Space Program.  Jerrry Isdale of Maui Makers now has $500,000.00 he will
> be using to give $30,000 grants every 3 months for  "education and
> research projects that enhance humanity’s survivability, on earth and in
> space."
>
>                   Fare Onwards & Upwards, ML256,
>                   Ethan/spacefelix
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Edward Wright <edward.v.wright at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:49 AM
> Subject: DARPA wants to fund hackerspaces and biosphere work
> To: Robin Snelson <robin.snelson at gmail.com>, Michael Clive <
> zeinin at gmail.com>, Ethan Chew <spacefelix at gmail.com>, Scott Nietfeld <
> snietfeld at gmail.com>, Gary Hudson <gary at ssi.org>
>
>
> I just got a message from Jerry Isdale, who is DARPA lead for a new
> project, Hackerspaces in Space. He wants to meet us at Maker Faire.
>
> Jerry has $500,000, which he'll be using to give $30k grants every 3
> months for "education and research projects that enhance humanity’s
> survivability, on earth and in space."
>
> The following is from the DARPA project proposal:
>
> *There are three investment areas we want to focus on in the first
> decade: education, space economy and biospheres.
> **The first area is creating new generations of makers and researchers
> who can research and implement the necessary technologies. This will be in
> the form of an open source education program, with both self-education and
> group-education components, designed to teach successive generations the
> basics of Maker/ Tinker/ Hacker thinking and encourage continual innovation
> and improvement of the program itself. We also want to inspire an interest
> in space development through providing opportunities for applied sciences
> and engineering.
> **
> **Second, investments in projects to create a viable Near-Earth space
> economy:
>
> *
>
>    - Space prospecting and mining: Focusing on automated small body
>    electronics: robotics, remote sensing, navigation.
>
>
>    - Space power station: Providing energy to the Near-Earth space
>    facilities. Solar panels, microwave power transmission
>
>
>    - Space manufacturing: Once provided with power and material, it is
>    possible to start manufacturing in space. To scale up production, research
>    into self-replicating 3D printing machines and fully automated
>    manufacturing.
>
> *
> **Finally, efforts to make it possible to live autonomously in space and
> other planets of the solar system through the creation of self-encapsulated
> biospheres with improvements in hydroponics and waste recycling.*
>
>
>
>
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